There may well come a day that Jackson doesn’t start Odom. However, before that happens, Odom will have shown he can’t handle the switch to small forward.

At that point, Odom — who’s in the last year of his $14.1-million-a-year-deal and may be getting apprehensive about not getting invited back — will be on his way out and his feelings about coming off the bench will be even less important than they are now.